Daily Archives: March 15, 2011

Power 2.0

I’ve been asked a couple times what I do for power in the field. Here it is. 2 x Everstart 24DC-6 flooded lead-acid hybrid deep cycle/marine batteries wired in parallel. 75AH each, 150AH in total 0 gauge cable with nice … Continue reading

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Astrometry.net

I compiled the code found at http://www.astrometry.net/use.html on my Fedora 11 box (a VM really, hosted by VPSLink) in Boston. A couple edits to a couple makefiles, a bunch of yum installs for devel RPMs and I was off. I … Continue reading

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Wicked Laser E2 arrived today.

On 11/22/2010 I ordered one of these bad boys: http://www.wickedlasers.com/lasers/E2_Series-104-63.html It *just* arrived. Better late than never I guess. But this thing is powerful, whoa. Here’s a pic of it:

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